SUCCEED

Building the Right Board at the Right Time
Review your board’s responsibilities in light of your organization’s life cycle. Identify strategies that help you guide them.

Capturing the Passion of Committees
Committees are supposed to help guide and support your programs and services. Learn useful strategies in setting up and managing your committee structure.

CEO: Confidential
What happens here stays here! Meet with other executive directors and CEO’s in a casual and relaxing environment. This session will be off-site and gives you the opportunity to network with other leaders that face the same challenges and successes as you.

Thinking from the Inside Out
Strategic thinking happens every day and not just during the planning retreat. This session will focus on how you can help your staff and board stay on top of a changing environment and opportunities throughout the year.

Keeping the Flame Alive
Studies show that 75% of executive directors will leave their positions within the next 18 months and boards change every year. Succession planning is critical for transitions and changes in your organization. This workshop will identify the structures of a succession plan for your staff and board.

Build a Winning Team and Getting Them Aboard!
All Aboooaaard! We all know that staff, whether paid or volunteer, all need to be on the same page. Learn to create the kind of team that helps keep the steam in your organizational engine.

The “I” in T-E-A-M
There is no “I” in “TEAM” …or is there? This workshop will teach you how to hold staff and volunteers individually accountable for their responsibilities and duties as well as recognize their efforts as individuals.

SUSTAIN

Mythbusters: Truths about On-line Fundraising

Learn the truths about how online technology an be part of your innovative fundraising lan from the people who have found new ays to bring in the funds. It’s the wave of he future and you’ll learn what works and hat to avoid.

Through the Looking Glass: Fundraising From a Funder’s Perspective

Come hear from a panel of funders the things you must know in order to receive the funds you need! We will discuss the funder’s perspective n outcome funding, collaboration, nd other important aspects of ensuring that unders see a “return” on their investment in our charitable work.

Fundraiser: Confidential

What happens here, stays here! Meet with undraising staff from other organizations in a casual and relaxing environment. This session ill be offsite and gives you the opportunity o network with other development leaders
that face the same challenges and successes s you.

No More Raffles and Auctions!

People like a good party but how many parties an your community sustain? Learn about artnership events that raised lots of money and the strategies that make them successful.

Surviving AFTER the Grant

A happy grantor is a repeat grantor but they ay not always repeat. Hear from experienced grant recipients the fine art of developing sustainability plans.

Your Long-Term Success

There’s lots of talk about planned giving and endowment building and how they should be part of your long-term financial success. Learn how to create a planned giving program and build an endowment that works for your
organization.

Telling Your Story to Increase Community Awareness

How do you effectively tell your story that keeps donors and the community engaged? This workshop will help you shape your message from a story-telling perspective that keeps donors and stakeholders excited about
your mission.

SHAPE

The Ins and Outs of Supporting Your Operations
In these times, it’s important to re-think strategies that support your operations. It’s not always about the money but about efficient service delivery. Balancing fundraising with volunteer opportunities can help you get through tough economic times…now and in the future.

Getting the Results You Need
Learn about this model that gets results from staff, board and your organization. Results-Based Accountability makes evaluation and accountability simpler and redefines old strategies that could be the difference between surviving and thriving.

CFO: Confidential
What happens here stays here! Get to now financial and operational staff from ther organizations in a casual and relaxing environment. This session will be offsite and gives you the opportunity to network with ther financial leaders that face the same hallenges and successes as you.

Allocate Your Budget for Compliance and Grants
Create a budget structure that helps you identify key elements for audit compliance and grantwriting. This workshop will also help you determine whether a program should be divested or supported.

Building a Transparent and Accountable Organization
Government and public scrutiny has become a huge nonprofit issue. Be aware of required elements for compliance with Internal Revenue Service and the Secretary of State. Learn some quick tips on preventing fraud and being
more accountable to the public.

There is no such thing as a bad volunteer…
Participants will go step-by-step through Best Practice Guidelines for “finding the right fit” with volunteers and their organization. This session includes the screening process for risk management, interviews, reference checks, orientation and training, supervision and valuation.

Breathing Life Into Your Strategic Plan
Every nonprofit needs a strategic plan but how do you measure its results every day? This workshop will feature ideas on keeping your strategic plan alive and kicking.

SHARE

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Redefine your thoughts about networking and create a daily discipline to use network strategies that get results. Learn creative ways and share your experiences with others to maximize participants’ networking skills.

Table Talk: Real Experts. Real Issues.
This session is an open forum to discuss your concerns or get help from experts in the field. Come prepared with questions that you have in your daily management. This time allows you to work with exhibitors and other experts, such as lawyers, accountants, and the Secretary of State.

60 Seconds to Share Your Message
Your “elevator speech” is what it takes to convey your organization’s mission from the first floor to the 30th floor. You have about one minute to get a strangers attention and keep it. Get ready, get set…go for this timed exercise to hone your elevator speech. This “speed networking” session is limited to 30 participants.

Playing Together in the Sandbox
Collaboration and partnerships get a lot of talk these days. What are they and how should they really work? Learn the structures and agreements to getting partnerships that keep you in a “win-win” situation to reach your goals.

America’s Promise
This program is a model for how partnerships and sharing with other organizations can make your programs show “promising” results. Learn about America’s Promise strategies in Mississippi and how those strategies might help you in your organization.